For a while, I was sort of with the GB crew: the game (which I have inexplicably bought on Steam, Switch AND Xbox, despite not liking until 20 hours into the Xbox version) is weird. It starts INCREDIBLY slowly with what could be described as a tutorial for, man, who even knows how many hours, until it opens up. Within that time, it gives you very little direction at all. While I understand the appeal of this, it was frustrating for me. Not in a way that made me think that the game was bad but, it was a weird way for my brain to process the Metroidvaniasouls amalgam that it was. It just had a VERY slow ramp at the beginning met with little reward (or at least, reward that made sense most of the time) and on top of that the movement abilities were doled out at such a slow pace (at least to me, as I wandered all over the place).
So, the look, music and feel are all top notch, and thus I decided I would definitely dig in this time and really do it. And boy, it's a great damn game. Challenging and fun and only occasionally making me want to launch a controller across the room (looking at you Watcher Knights), and with a reserved story that I think is both well told and interesting. I'm happy I bought it three times, sorry it took me so long to finally push through to where I liked it (although, as has been stated before, it probably SHOULDN'T take as long as it does to get into Hollow Knight). I guess the point of this thread is, how many people here have played it, did you stick with it, do you like it, and do you think it is every bit the slow burn that I think that it is? I know that there is a segment here that is rabid about it (the comments anytime it is brought up on anything show that) but otherwise I feel like it isn't talked about a lot in comparison to other games.
Final thing: boy the soundtrack is just some of the best shit ever. The Greenpath in particular is just amazing.
EDIT: also, mods, I'm sorry, I meant to post this in the Hollow Knight forum, apologies.
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